Derek Sawvell

Managing Editor

Derek is an award-winning journalist who has been covering eastern Iowa since 2000. Sawvell has been AN editor since early 2009, where he writes a weekly column, “Case in Point,” and covers Durant and Wilton sports, news, school board and city government beats and takes several weekly photos. He won the 2013 Iowa Newspaper Foundation Jay P. Wagner Award for Young Journalists and the 2014 National Newspaper Association Daniel M. Phillips Leadership Award. A former Wilton High School graduate, Derek has won numerous statewide and national editorial writing awards.